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They said development. Not production or sales. Truth be told all the low hanging fruit with combustion engines was gobbled up back in the 80s and 90s with the
by mberning 6y ago
They said development. Not production or sales. Truth be told all the low hanging fruit with combustion engines was gobbled up back in the 80s and 90s with the advent of EFI. Since then it has been diminishing returns. The engines of today are about as clean as they could be without an insane amount of additional development. These manufacturers will be happy to keep selling their current ICE engines for years to come and devote the lions share of their R&D budgets to electrification efforts.
- prox 6y agoA lot of work in this field afaik is about finding new materials or using more common materials to do the same thing. Getting more R&D in this field early is definitely worth the pay off, and the right time as well.